Courses Taught

GEOG 151 - Human Geography and Contemporary Society

GEOG 335 - Politics, Nations, and States

GEOG 695 - Concepts and Theories in Geography

GEOG 735 - Seminar in Political Geography

Research

I am a political geographer and I study the changing role political boundaries play in the contemporary world. My current research investigates the global trend towards hardened political borders with an emphasis on border fencing projects in the United States, Israel, and India. Beyond the immediate physical and symbolic consequences of the barriers, I am interested in theorizing what the securitization of border spaces means for conceptions of territory, sovereignty, and the state.

Jones, R. 2011. ‘Political geography and national boundaries’ in Stoltzman, J. ed. Geography for the 21st Century London: Sage.

Jones, R. 2011. . ‘Searching for the greatest Bengali: The BBC and shifting identity categories in South Asia’ reprinted in Heath, D. and Mathur, C. eds. Communalism and Globalisation in South Asia and Its Diaspora London: Routledge.